Understanding Xylazine
This session focuses on the insights and perspectives of Poison Control Center clinicians in addressing opioid use disorder (OUD) care issues in our local region,…
Course Category: Opioid Education
Introduction to the Induction: A Primer to Starting Your Patient on Buprenorphine
This session focuses on the insights and perspectives of Poison Control Center clinicians in addressing opioid use disorder (OUD) care issues in our local region,…
Fatal Poisonings
It’s hard to call an opioid overdose an accident when it happens to a young child — at home and under supervision. Some fatal poisonings…
Numbing the Pain and Comfortably Numb
Please Note: This course may contain imagery and/or video of surgical procedures. Numbing the Pain: Multimodal Anesthesia in Pediatric General Surgery At the end of…
A Resources Roadmap to Recovery in the Greater Philadelphia Area: Session 4
This session will review trends in substance use and overdose in Philadelphia, PA, and the United States. Treatment recommendations including harm reduction resources and benefits…
Buprenorphine Induction Beyond the Basics: Session 3
Buprenorphine is one of the gold standard medications utilized for treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD). One of the major barriers to buprenorphine maintenance is…
Adolescent Opioid Use Disorder: Session 2
This session will explore evidence demonstrating how addiction can be considered a pediatric disease as well as treatment currently provided to adolescent patients with Opioid…
The Pediatric Impact of the Opioid Crisis: Session 1
This session will explore the many ways in which opioid epidemic affects pediatric medicine, from toddler exploratory poisonings, to young patients’ parental loss, neonatal abstinence…
Multidisciplinary Care of the Infant/Parent Dyad Affected by Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome
The ongoing opioid epidemic in the United States has translated into a public health emergency due to the rising cases of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS)…
Primary Care in the Opioid Epidemic: Supporting NAS and NOWS Babies and Their Moms
Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) and neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) have skyrocketed as a result of the ongoing opioid epidemic. Celina C.S. Migone, MD, attending…